Get ready to let your mind run wild as you manufacture your own fun out of pixels in the new ReactionLab 2. On the surface this is a fairly typical "Falling Sand" style game, but it goes a bit deeper than that. There are 80 pixel elements to work with, which can be used to generate completely new substances with their own unique properties.

ReactionLab 2 gives you a canvas on which you can draw the pixels of your choice. There are liquids like water and gasoline, as well as solids (like steel and glass) and gasses (steam, chlorine, etc). The fun is in figuring out how all these materials interact. For example, apply electricity to a vessel filled with Neon, and you get a neon light. The game also gives you pixels that represent simple (and not so simple) machines like a steam turbine and electric pump.

Anyone who messed around with the original ReactionLab will be happy to see there are some new options in this one, including a rewind tool and the ability to save your machines. I can see this being a rather addictive game as you use the zoom tool to carefully build complex contraptions that burn, explode, and melt all those pixels. It's only $0.99, but that's a sale price.

Ryan is a tech/science writer, skeptic, lover of all things electronic, and Android fan. In his spare time he reads golden-age sci-fi and sleeps, but rarely at the same time. His wife tolerates him as few would.
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Comments

thats what it says in the actual article "On the surface this is a fairly typical "Falling Sand" style game"

Tom

if only I had Twiglets for fingers

Jorim Tielemans

So basically just a mobile version of Powder Toy?

PiLoT .

"On the surface this is a fairly typical "Falling Sand" style game"

matt

stole the words out of my mouth

Brayden Reesor

I feel like I'm not smart enough to truly enjoy this game.

Franken Stein

So basically just is a clone-lite of The Sandbox?Really

Franco Rossel

Yup

http://kittyanarchy.net/ Ashley Davis

It's important to note that The Sandbox is a ripoff of the various "Falling Sands" games made to have a goal and to milk all the money it can from you. This, however, is just a nice Falling Sands game that's currently $0.99 and has no IAPs.